The star of “ER” and “The Cooler” has just published a series of personal essays on the “labels we give ourselves,” in which she discusses, among other things, being bipolar and bisexual. She was born and raised Catholic, and talked about that in an interview with The Daily Beast: What might surprise a lot of people is that one of the people you describe as a partner, as one of your closest relationships, was with a priest. I have been blessed to... Read more
Remarkable: A brain-dead and pregnant Nebraska mother was kept on life support for nearly two months so her baby could survive and be delivered in a historic birth. Karla Perez, 22, became the first person on record in the United States, since 1999, to give birth after being kept on somatic support, health officials said. “Our team took a giant leap of faith,” said Sue Korth, vice president and COO of Methodist Women’s Hospital, which delivered the baby. “We were... Read more
I love this guy. He’s my brother-in-law. And he’s awesome: Michael Meyer, an associate professional specialist in the Mendoza College of Business, will walk 30 miles around campus while carrying two gallons of water Sunday to raise money to build a well in Burkina Faso. Meyer will do 20 laps of a 1.5-mile route around campus, to accomplish a total of 30 miles, which represents the distance a typical village resident of Burkina Faso walks in one week to obtain and bring back... Read more
Yeah, this sounds like something I’d do: An Italian man hung up the phone on Pope Francis twice thinking he was being pranked, but later apologised to him for his error, the Vatican newspaper, l’Osservatore Romano, has reported. The pontiff, who often contacts strangers who write to him or whose problems he hears about, called Franco Rabuffi on Monday to comfort him as he was sick. Rabuffi disconnected the call twice thinking it was a hoax. It was only when the... Read more
View image | gettyimages.com From Rachel Held Evans in The Washington Post: Bass reverberates through the auditorium floor as a heavily bearded worship leader pauses to invite the congregation, bathed in the light of two giant screens, to tweet using #JesusLives. The scent of freshly brewed coffee wafts in from the lobby, where you can order macchiatos and purchase mugs boasting a sleek church logo. The chairs are comfortable, and the music sounds like something from the top of the... Read more
Holy cow, this looks like fun. Three of my favorite Catholic women are teaming up for a new radio show called The Visitation Project. If you don’t know their names and faces, you should! It’s Bonnie Engstrom of A Knotted Life and champion for the cause of Fulton Sheen, Heather Renshaw, founder of two conference (Catholic Women Rejoice and Called to Love) and writer atRealCatholicMom.com, and Rebecca Frech, author of Teaching in Your Tiara: A Homeschool Book for the Rest of... Read more
As noted earlier, this is believed to be the largest ordination class this year in the United States —maybe, in fact, in the world. The Diocese of Allentown has published a photo gallery of the ordination. Check it out here. Details: “Together we thank Father, Son and Holy Spirit for this unique and historic moment of the New Evangelization,” said Bishop John Barres, who ordained 47 men to the permanent diaconate April 25 at St. Thomas More, Allentown. “The... Read more
Not so very long ago, this sort of thing would have been unthinkable on mainstream American TV. But here we are: Ben and his father are the subject of the new ABC Family docuseries Becoming Us. From Ryan Seacrest Productions, Becoming Us centers on Ben, who watches as his dad Charlie divorces his mom and begins the gender transition into Carly, a woman. But the series will also focus on Ben’s girlfriend Danielle, whose father is also undergoing a gender transition. “I want to... Read more
As noted earlier, this is believed to be the largest ordination class this year in the United States —maybe, in fact, in the world. The Diocese of Allentown has published a photo gallery of the ordination. Check it out here. Details: “Together we thank Father, Son and Holy Spirit for this unique and historic moment of the New Evangelization,” said Bishop John Barres, who ordained 47 men to the permanent diaconate April 25 at St. Thomas More, Allentown. “The... Read more
[getty src=”167795606?et=BURDwchiTkhmDd8v8Ibsyg&viewMoreLink=on&sig=blpSSYgW9AdHuU84b0Mgi4QlVNj7RmGlIxxDkuzoZH0=” width=”507″ height=”338″] View image | gettyimages.com From Rachel Held Evans in The Washington Post: Bass reverberates through the auditorium floor as a heavily bearded worship leader pauses to invite the congregation, bathed in the light of two giant screens, to tweet using #JesusLives. The scent of freshly brewed coffee wafts in from the lobby, where you can order macchiatos and purchase mugs boasting a sleek church logo. The chairs are comfortable, and the music sounds like something from... Read more
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